SATURDAYS 10am-1pm, 519 S. 17th Street, McAllen

The Texas Food Revolution is the hottest weekly food celebration in the Texas Valley. Held at Alhambra Restaurant on McAllen's sexy 17th Street every Saturday, it's the perfect spot to rejuvenate and fill up on fresh-squeezed juices, prepared foods like Gulf-shrimp and mango ceviche and French pastries. Or sit down and enjoy a daring brunch menu. Don't forget to stock up on locally-grown, pesticide-free fruits and vegetables, fresh farm eggs, and local ranch beef, pork, chicken, lamb and more. Vendors at the Texas Food Revolution offer a discount or freebie to people who shop with cloth or paper bags.
   Farmers & ranchers are the leaders in the Texas Food Revolution. Ask them any question about their food, and they'll look you in the eye with the answer.
   Behind the farmers are an army of chefs and home cooks who know that food grown locally is better.  When gas was cheap, our food supply system became dependent on shipping food across countries and continents. Food lost its soul along the way. Now, this Texas Valley soil is home to one of the strongest food revolutions in the country, with  fresh and delicious, locally grown and produced food to help everyone live full, happy lives ... while promoting a local small-farm economy and saving taxpayers untold indigent health care money.
   The Texas Food Revolution is being fought on terrain where a Food Revolution has been waged since 1910, when Francisco Madero launched an attack against the autocrat despot Porfirio Diaz.
   The Texas Valley, the war's north-eastern boundary, was a hideout for the rebel heroes like Pancho Villa, who became a symbol of a people's movement that fought for the right of every Mexican citizen to have land to grow food on.
   The farmers of the Texas Food Revolution grow food on this same soil that remains a sanctuary to rebel heroes who work for the people's access to fresh food.
   Get your food from the Texas Food Revolution every Saturday 10am-1pm at the Market at Alhambra, 519 S. 17th, McAllen.
   Buy locally-grown. It's thousands of miles better.
   To participate in the Texas Food Revolution as a vendor, call 956.203.4152 or email foodrebel@texasfoodrevolution.com